[Theory] REMINDER: 4/5 Talks at TTIC: Eunsol Choi, University of Washington

[Mary Marre]

When:     Friday, April 5th at *11:00 am*

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526

Who:       Eunsol Choi, University of Washington

*Title:*       Learning to Understand Entities In Text

*Abstract:*
Real world entities such as people, organizations and countries play a
critical role in text. Reading offers rich explicit and implicit
information about these entities, such as the categories they belong to,
relationships they have with other entities, and events they participate
in. In this talk, we introduce approaches to infer implied information
about entities, and to automatically query such information in an
interactive setting. We expand the scope of information that can be learned
from text for a range of tasks, including sentiment extraction, entity
typing and question answering. To this end, we introduce new ideas for how
to find effective training data, including crowdsourcing and large-scale
naturally occurring weak supervision data. We also describe new
computational models, that represent rich social and conversation contexts
to tackle these tasks. Together, these advances significantly expand the
scope of information that can be incorporated into the next generation of
machine reading systems.

*Bio:*
Eunsol Choi is a Ph.D candidate at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer
Science at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on natural
language processing, specifically applying machine learning to recover
semantics from text. She completed a B.A. in Computer Science and
Mathematics at Cornell University, and is a recipient of the Facebook
fellowship.

*Host:* Kevin Gimpel <kgimpel at ttic.edu>


Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
*Room 517*
*Chicago, IL  60637*
*p:(773) 834-1757*
*f: (773) 357-6970*
*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*


On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 3:32 PM Mary Marre <mmarre at ttic.edu> wrote:

> *Talks at TTIC:  *Eunsol Choi, University of Washington
>
> [image: eunsol_profile.jpg]
>
>
> When:     Friday, April 5th at *11:00 am*
>
> Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526
>
> Who:       Eunsol Choi, University of Washington
>
> *Title:*       Learning to Understand Entities In Text
>
> *Abstract:*
> Real world entities such as people, organizations and countries play a
> critical role in text. Reading offers rich explicit and implicit
> information about these entities, such as the categories they belong to,
> relationships they have with other entities, and events they participate
> in. In this talk, we introduce approaches to infer implied information
> about entities, and to automatically query such information in an
> interactive setting. We expand the scope of information that can be learned
> from text for a range of tasks, including sentiment extraction, entity
> typing and question answering. To this end, we introduce new ideas for how
> to find effective training data, including crowdsourcing and large-scale
> naturally occurring weak supervision data. We also describe new
> computational models, that represent rich social and conversation contexts
> to tackle these tasks. Together, these advances significantly expand the
> scope of information that can be incorporated into the next generation of
> machine reading systems.
>
> *Bio:*
> Eunsol Choi is a Ph.D candidate at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer
> Science at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on natural
> language processing, specifically applying machine learning to recover
> semantics from text. She completed a B.A. in Computer Science and
> Mathematics at Cornell University, and is a recipient of the Facebook
> fellowship.
>
> *Host:* Kevin Gimpel <kgimpel at ttic.edu>
>
>
>
>
> Mary C. Marre
> Administrative Assistant
> *Toyota Technological Institute*
> *6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
> *Room 517*
> *Chicago, IL  60637*
> *p:(773) 834-1757*
> *f: (773) 357-6970*
> *mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 3:13 PM Mary Marre <mmarre at ttic.edu> wrote:
>
>> *Talks at TTIC:  *Eunsol Choi, University of Washington
>>
>> [image: eunsol_profile.jpg]
>>
>>
>> When:     Friday, April 5th at *11:00 am*
>>
>> Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526
>>
>> Who:       Eunsol Choi, University of Washington
>>
>> *Title:*       Learning to Understand Entities In Text
>>
>> *Abstract:*
>> Real world entities such as people, organizations and countries play a
>> critical role in text. Reading offers rich explicit and implicit
>> information about these entities, such as the categories they belong to,
>> relationships they have with other entities, and events they participate
>> in. In this talk, we introduce approaches to infer implied information
>> about entities, and to automatically query such information in an
>> interactive setting. We expand the scope of information that can be learned
>> from text for a range of tasks, including sentiment extraction, entity
>> typing and question answering. To this end, we introduce new ideas for how
>> to find effective training data, including crowdsourcing and large-scale
>> naturally occurring weak supervision data. We also describe new
>> computational models, that represent rich social and conversation contexts
>> to tackle these tasks. Together, these advances significantly expand the
>> scope of information that can be incorporated into the next generation of
>> machine reading systems.
>>
>> *Bio:*
>> Eunsol Choi is a Ph.D candidate at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer
>> Science at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on natural
>> language processing, specifically applying machine learning to recover
>> semantics from text. She completed a B.A. in Computer Science and
>> Mathematics at Cornell University, and is a recipient of the Facebook
>> fellowship.
>>
>> *Host:* Kevin Gimpel <kgimpel at ttic.edu>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mary C. Marre
>> Administrative Assistant
>> *Toyota Technological Institute*
>> *6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
>> *Room 517*
>> *Chicago, IL  60637*
>> *p:(773) 834-1757*
>> *f: (773) 357-6970*
>> *mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
>>
>
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